Shopping News

E is a very happy and excited man. His most favorite men’s clothing store in the whole world, Jos. A. Banks, just opened a new store in town. In fact, it is within walking distance of our house. E has been a loyal customer to their store in Washington, DC for years. It is just coincidence that his oldest son went to college there. Don’t you love the smell of new clothes? A couple years ago E bought me a new leather jacket from Jos. A. Banks. It is a black aviator jacket with a plush lamb mouton collar. It is a warm, beautiful jacket.


Last winter and spring when we were planning our wedding, we had a hard time finding the right cake top decoration. We wanted to have two grooms on the top of our wedding cake. All we could find were single piece, bride and groom figurines. Quick look on line and we found the internet site Two Grooms. What a wonderful and diverse site (along with its Two Brides site) for all things needed to plan your wedding or ceremony. The company was founded by the mother whose daughter was planning her same-sex wedding. She said she approached her daughter’s wedding as a "commitment to normalcy". She soon learned it is really "a commitment to equality".
We sent the company a picture of our cake cutting with their two grooms on the cake. It is now part of rotation of happy gay couples on their home page.